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Alfred Wainwright MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991), who preferred to be known as A. Wainwright [1] or A.W., was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells , published between 1955 and 1966 and consisting entirely of reproductions of his manuscript, has become the ...
Davies has also written a biography of the fell walker Alfred Wainwright, and many works about the topography and history of the Lake District. In children's literature, he has written the Ossie, Flossie Teacake and Snotty Bumstead series of novels.
A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells is a series of seven books by A. Wainwright, detailing the fells (the local word for hills and mountains) of the Lake District in northwest England. Written over a period of 13 years from 1952, they consist entirely of reproductions of Wainwright's manuscript , hand-produced in pen and ink with no typeset ...
Andrew Nichol was instrumental in keeping the famous writer's books in print in the early 1980s.
He is chairman of the Wainwright Society and made a series of TV programmes with Alfred Wainwright in the mid-1980s that looked back over the reclusive writer's life. He lives in Wasdale, where he farms at Crag House Farm and (with his wife) runs a mail order company named after Striding Edge, specialising in DVDs, maps and books about the countryside, particularly that of Cumbria.
Biography Wikipedia ... archive links to one external link on Alfred Wainwright. ... winners of the Lakeland Book of the Year have included Alfred Wainwright, 1985 ...
1st ed, 1974. The Outlying Fells of Lakeland is a 1974 book written by Alfred Wainwright dealing with hills in and around the Lake District of England.It differs from Wainwright's Pictorial Guides in that each of its 56 chapters describes a walk, sometimes taking in several summits, rather than a single fell.
Wainwright has written several books on northern or countryside topics, including a biography of the unrelated Alfred Wainwright and a guide to the Coast to Coast Walk. He has also written books on the Morris Minor and Mini cars. He writes a blog about another interest, moths. [6]